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By ROGER COLLIER When Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin dropped his support for Green Mountain Care a year and a half ago, it looked like single-payer healthcare in the United States might have taken a fatal blow. But no! A couple of thousand miles away, in Colorado, a new single-payer proposal is on the November ballotread more

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